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Factors Which Determine Renal Weight

XVI. The Nature of the Protein Intake

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The Scripps Metabolic Clinic, La Jolla, California, and Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School, San Francisco

In male albino rats an increased protein intake in the form of egg albumin or blood albumin has a greater influence upon renal weight than protein in the form of casein. Gelatin produces a much larger increase in renal weight than any other protein source which has been fed. There is evidence that this may be of a pathological rather than a physiological nature.